Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:15:33AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: >>> hello all, >>> i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages >>> comparing to solaris chmod? >>> It's very annoying when using ACLs. >> No reason; several of the GNU utilities are broken in some way in Solaris; >> change your $PATH and remove /usr/gnu/bin. > > If a GNU utility is broken on Solaris then maybe we should not ship it, > or else we should fix it. No?
The known bad interactions with GNU utilities in the default path have been tracked so far at: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/showdependencytree.cgi?id=576&hide_resolved=0 Just need some engineers (in Sun or the community) to sign up to fix them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
